/sci/ - Science & Math

The ocean for coastal countries. The land for... well, it won't cause much damage in land.

>>5635904

find "Lucifer's Hammer" by Niven and Pournelle

great book

As I onced said in response to this exact question:

"Water, since meteors are mostly ice, it'd freeze a bunch of water around it and change the climate/kill many animals."

>>5635944

are you a bad troll?

anyway, definitely ocean.

>>5635953
Yes, he is a bad troll. He's a mentally ill physics major who has been shitposting on /sci/ since 2011. Unfortunately even for proper trolling he's too uncreative.

>>5635953
I'm someone who doesn't abide by the constraints of "science" (which is actually more akin to indoctrination in its modern form) and actually uses his brain to extrapolate information about the world.

>>5635944
0/10

>>5635969
How I imagine you look like in real life

>>5636031
Nah, I don't think he'd ever dress up like that. That requires creativity and self-esteem. I'd rather think of him as a pathetic skinny nerd.

Depends on the size eof the meteor

>>5636044
You're a pathetic fat neckbeard who browses /sci/ 24/7.

>>5636031
There are some similarities, but I'd never dress in a shirt that gay or use that much hair gel.

>>5636044
>That requires creativity and self-esteem
>Implying I don't have to be creative to do what I do
>Implying that that's not the absolute worst someone could look

>>5636059
Wrong in both points. I'm a rather attractive woman and I don't come here very often.

>>5636073
Everyone is an attractive woman on the internet. What's your point?

How large would a meteor have to be to throw tons of dust and debris into the atmosphere causing a mini ice age?

>>5636066
Yes, you should be very creative for what you do. Except you aren't.

>>5636073
>denial

>>5636110
I like how you're backing your claim that I'm uncreative with absolutely no evidence lol :-)

>>5636118
All my evidence of you non creativity can be distilled from any one of your comments, "lol"

Please stop and migrate to >>>/hm/

>>5636133
What the fuck is he supposed to do on /hm/? He's not gay and he's not handsome. The only place where he belongs is >>>/pol/. That's the containment board for braindead cretins.

http://www.purdue.edu/impactearth

land, obviously

>>5636133
I have yet to see conclusive evidence of my uncreativity. Something that's not just your opinion.

>>5636150
>He's not gay
>He's not handsome
What next, am I not a tripfriend? Maybe I should move to /hm/, maybe they will be more willing to actually listen to me.

>>5636181
Of course you're not a trip-"friend". You're a shitposter.

>>5635944
>meteors are mostly ice

It is on fire in the fucking picture. Ice doesn't burn retard.

It depends what it is made out of.

If it is made out of fire and rock like in the pic, then landing in the water would be best for us, since water beats fire and rock.

>>5636205
*Sigh* Why must I explain this constantly? Space is very cold, close to 0K, this causes everything that is in space to get cold too, nearing 0K as well, which means that WHILE THE METEOR MAY START BURNING when ENTERING THE EARTH, it's still very cold, which means it will freeze anything it comes in contact with.

>>5636221
what about the astronomical amount of kinetic energy the asteroid has?

>>5636217

you're right.

in fact, water gets a double critical against fire/rock, so it SHOULD rocket the meteor back into space, possibly toward that hussie venus.

>>5636221
its not the meteor that burns, dumbass.

>>5636221
>close to 0K
doesn't know 'bout mah 3k cosmic background.

>>5636240
nah

A land impact would be more disastrous due to the kick-up of dust. Sun gets blocked, photosynthesis goes down, the entire animal kingdom suffers from the decline in food sources and environmental disruption.

>meteor is ice which will freeze the ocean
Not gonna do the math but if I dropped a 10,000-ton chunk of ice at a temperature of 3K in the ocean it would barely make a dent in the average temperature of the oceans.

>>5636322
not to mention it heats up like fuck going through the atmosphere.

>>5636221
Is that demon still behind your television?

>>5636073

transexual there

>>/lgbt/

>>5636322
what if you dropped a -50K chunck of ice in?

It depends on the size and location I suppose.

Land. If it hit the water it will create a massive tsunami that will hurt a lot of people. On land it will throw massive amounts of land into the air as well as more of a shock wavel

>>5636221
I haven't seen you in a long time teacup
I'm one of the people who got cursed by you a long time ago

How's that curse working out for you?

>>5635904
There are so many variables to the problem without which a definitive answer cannot be given.

What is the size of the asteroid and how fast is it travelling? Of what material is the asteroid comprised?

>>5636789
Also, what is the precise location of impact?

Is it in the desert or is it in a valley surrounded by mountains?

>>5635904

There are so many variables to the problem without which a definitive answer cannot be given.

What is the size of the asteroid and how fast is it travelling upon impact?

Of what material is the asteroid comprised?

What is the surface area of the asteroid initially impacting the earth?

What is the exact location of impact? Is it in a valley? A desert? Shallow water? Which ocean?

If the surface area of the initial impact is smaller than an adjacent side and the asteroid rolls as a result then what is the surface area of the secondary impact and at what speed does it impact the earth?

What is the location of the moon? What season is it?

There are a lot of variables.

>>5636093
he/she isn't the one who brought it up in the first place

>>5636221
A 10 km asteroid, which is an asteroid I am going to assume is a good size if this is an argument, has a mass of roughly 1.3 trillion tons. An asteroid traveling in the vicinity of Earth is going to have a velocity ~20km/s (low end of the scale mind you).

1.3 trillion tons.... 20km/s.... That is equivalent to 2.5 x 10^23 J of energy. I dont give a shit what temperature the object is hitting at, it will make it's own temperature. You must be retarded?

>>5636362

You would break the universe because that is completely impossible.

>>5636471

Who is this crazy fuck?

>>5637098

One of an Elite corps of Trolls... EK, Harriet, Rose, and Teacup, among others, perhaps Liberty.

>>5636947

Answer:

>>5636865

>>5637105
>Teacup
>elite troll

Just no. That's like calling Stephen Hawking an olympic sprinter.

>>5637137

So he is genuinely crazy then?

>>5636471
What?
>>5636336
Also what?

>>5637147
>So he is genuinely crazy then?

Yeah, but not crazy in the psychotic sense. He's not a crackpot and he doesn't believe the shit he's posting. He's more like an emotionally hurt child. His whole shitposting spree started in a butthurt attempt to imitate EK. Check the archives from 2011

>>5637137

I'm sure Hawking could manage an Olympic team if he so chose. But that's neither here nor there. I did not say Teacup was the Mastermind, that is one of the EK's.

>>5637149

Link please.

>>5637156
http://archive.installgentoo.net/sci/

Search for his tripcode.

>>5637163
>being this autistic

>>5637168
>shitposting tripfag
>accusing others of being "autistic"

oh the irony

>>5637168

I'm neurotypical and I find it mildly interesting.

depends which ocean it hit. indian? lol who cares

atlantic? shit is bad, son

pacific, lots will die depending on where it hits

land? depending on how big it is... worst possible scenario

what if a meteor hits the super volcano in north america and while exploding and causing shit tons of damage, the volcano also erupted and caused shit tons of damage

critical hit! earth was knocked out!

questions of this sort are fun, but drawing attention to them at the expense of addressing more immediate threats like global warming is wasteful and dangerous. just saiyan.

>immediate threats like global warming

m(

>>5637171
>you
>not a shitposter

oh the irony

>>5638082
I like how said e-mails came to light through wikileaks and then right after the right wing media started raging on wikileaks claiming nothing good ever came out of them.